Road collaborates with Worldline to offer a new payment solution for charge point owners.

The electric vehicle charging landscape involves numerous stakeholders who must work in harmony to deliver a seamless process for drivers. This includes manufacturers of electric vehicle charging stations, charge point operators (CPOs), charge point owners, mobility service providers (MSPs), roaming service providers, charging point management software providers (CPMSs), electricity providers, installers, and payment service providers—all working collectively to serve electric vehicle drivers.

Whether they operate as retailers, highway operators, city authorities, or parking operators, charge point owners have two primary options when managing charging stations on their premises. They can either fully or partially delegate the services and operations to a CPO, or they can assume the role of the CPO themselves. If they choose to take on this responsibility, they’ll need a reliable charge point management platform.

This is where Road excels. The company offers charge point owners a comprehensive software solution to seamlessly manage all aspects of EV charging. Road’s platform optimises the process for both drivers and CPOs, providing features such as automated transactions, load management, 24/7 driver support, remote management and updates, and real-time charge monitoring.

As global regulations tighten around EV charge transactions, CPOs must have a compliant payment platform that makes EV payments as simple and accessible as fuel payments. For example, the EU’s recent Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) and the Public Charge Points Regulations 2023 in the UK require full price transparency, standard payment options, and clear end-user information for public charge points. In light of these demands, when a charge point owner subscribes to Road's platform for managing its EV charging infrastructure, they expect the solution to comprehensively handle all aspects, including payment processing.

The collaboration between Road and Worldline addresses these challenges. Worldline’s EV Charging Payments Suite is an end-to-end solution for EV transactions, offering payment terminals, e-commerce payment service providers, and European commercial acquiring to process payments for merchants' banks. By integrating this suite with the Road platform, we introduce a turnkey software solution that manages every aspect of EV charging, including payment. 

Worldline’s EV Charging Payments Suite is an end-to-end solution for the EV transaction space. Our comprehensive offering includes payment terminals, e-commerce payment service providers (PSPs), and European commercial acquiring, facilitating payment transaction processing for merchant banks. The collaboration between Road and Worldline centres on commercial acquiring, introducing a turnkey software platform to the market that manages all aspects of EV charging, including payments.

Whatever the shape or size of your business, Worldline Acquiring will keep your global acquiring simple. We handle in-store and online payments across 80+ acceptance currencies and every imaginable way to pay - perfect if your ambition is to enable customers to pay or receive money easily, or if you want to expand abroad. Onboarding is simple too, with fast payouts assured.

The first phase of our collaboration focuses on linking the Worldline pan-European commercial acquiring platform with Road's platform. As a result, when a Road customer subscribes, they gain direct access to Worldline's acquiring services for seamless payment processing. In this configuration, Road’s clients have two options: Road can act as the merchant on their behalf, or clients can sign a direct contract with Worldline. In commercial acquiring, the merchant must formalise the contract with the acquirer, ensuring compliance and smooth operations. 

This collaboration offers significant benefits. Road’s clients, no matter where they deploy EV charge stations in Europe, will be connected to Worldline acquiring. This connectivity empowers them to expand their business across Europe seamlessly, without additional connections.